Super Bowl Day Two | with Octavia Spencer, CM Punk, Mina Kimes & More!

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Super Bowl Day Two | with Octavia Spencer, CM Punk, Mina Kimes & More!"

Podcast: Casuals with Katie Nolan (SiriusXM)
Date: February 5, 2026
Host: Katie Nolan
Featured Guests: Diana Rossini, Mina Kimes, Octavia Spencer, CM Punk, Dion Dawkins, Kyle & Kristen Juszczyk

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Episode Overview

Live from Super Bowl 60’s Radio Row in San Francisco, Katie Nolan hosts a whirlwind episode packed with laughter, sports banter, and bites of pop culture. The show flows seamlessly between interviews with sports insiders, athletes, and entertainment stars—including a highlight with Octavia Spencer—while maintaining the easygoing, irreverent tone Casuals is known for. The episode paints Radio Row as a “fever dream” of reunions, wings, and stilted sponsor chats, giving listeners both the behind-the-scenes reality—and the joyful chaos—of sports’ biggest week.

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Main Discussion Themes & Highlights

1. Radio Row, Patriots Fandom, and Navigating Sports Media

[02:44–05:24; 08:31–09:41]

• Katie describes the sensory overload of Radio Row: crowded, underfed, and filled with old friends and brief, often awkward sponsor-laden interviews.
• She openly leans into her Patriots fandom, wearing team gear despite old "media neutrality" dogma:
  • “The point of this podcast is that we’re fans...I did wear my Patriots jacket today. How do we feel about that? Right call? Wrong call.” (08:32)
  • Mina Kimes: “Absolutely the right call.” (08:55)
• Hilarious story about being entrusted with Teddy Bruschi’s Super Bowl ring—and refusing to give it to a stranger in the chaos:
  • Katie: “I felt like Putin. I was like, 'My ring now. You shouldn’t put it on my finger if you didn’t want me to keep it.'” (08:01)

2. NBA Trade Deadline Mayhem

[10:24–13:59]

• The crew unpacks the Dallas Mavericks’ questionable trades—particularly Anthony Davis—and the resulting confusion:
  • Mina Kimes: “The Mavs decision to trade Luka Doncic further makes...further makes no sense...it sucks.” (11:47)
  • Katie: “Makes continue to not make any sense.” (11:49)
• Celtics’ acquisition of Nikola Vucevic gives hope, while James Harden’s move draws universal groans.
  • Mina Kimes: “He just sucks to watch, man.” (14:09)
• Discussion of the awkwardness of being the subject of trade rumors, using Giannis as an example.
  • Katie: “...Trade deadline comes and goes and you’re like, ‘I’m staying here.’” (15:03)

3. Lindsey Vonn’s Comeback & Athlete Resilience

[15:44–17:40]

• Katie brings up Lindsey Vonn’s attempt to ski in the Olympics after tearing her ACL.
  • Isabella: “Is skiing not just a series of using your knees?” (17:03)
  • Mina: “You can’t measure heart.” (17:43)
• The group muses about the danger and bravery behind Vonn’s choice.

4. Interview Supercut: Radio Row Guest Highlights

A. Diana Rossini, NFL Insider

Timestamp: [23:10–34:33]

• Catch-up about old ESPN memories, life changes, and the thrill/awkwardness of sports “FaceTime culture.”
• On being a woman in insider reporting:
  • Diana: “Players will tell you things I don’t truly believe they’d ever tell a man...I think being a woman helps.”
• Patriots vs. Seahawks Super Bowl prediction:
  • Diana: “I think the Patriots are going to win...It’s too obvious on paper that Seattle’s better. I think this Patriots team has an underdog mentality. The most dangerous players...are those that are just playing freely.” (31:12)
• On Belichick’s Hall of Fame snub:
  • “If you had robots doing this, he would be in because they would go by the numbers. But human beings are voters. People vote with emotion. People have personal vendettas.” (32:14)
• Plenty of quick-witted jokes and supportive jabs between friends.

B. Octavia Spencer, Actress

Timestamp: [34:34–40:31]

• Discusses her Super Bowl commercial and “Detect the SOS” campaign for kidney health:
  • “The only way to know that your kidneys are functioning correctly…is to have a UACR, which is a simple urine test.” (35:35)
• On sports fandom growing up in Alabama:
  • “In the South, football is an institution.”
• Shares love for Auburn, Coach Carter film memories, sports movies (“Remember the Titans,” “Friday Night Lights”), and the unique power of rooting for the underdog.
• Playful debate about Alabama-Auburn rivalry and movie deep cuts.

C. Dion Dawkins, Buffalo Bills Lineman

Timestamp: [41:10–49:17]

• Enthuses about Campbell’s Chunky Soup and the honor of appearing in commercials.
• Describes receiving “a quarter of a cow” from Josh Allen as a gift—and struggles to store it all!
  • Katie: “Which quarter of the cow is it? Is it, like, the butt?”
  • Dion: “Hopefully it’s all the ass.” (44:44)
• Talks Pro Bowl changes, the new “Protector of the Year” award for linemen, and his Hallmark movie role.
• Advocates for more recognition for linemen, both in real football and fantasy leagues.

D. CM Punk, WWE World Heavyweight Champion

Timestamp: [49:35–57:37]

• Shares tales of carrying his championship belt through airport security.
• Confesses hierarchy of sports fandom: “Hockey is number one with a bullet…to me, hockey is such a microcosm of life.”
• Hot take on the Chicago Bears’ management:
  • “The 85 Bears team should have been a dynasty, and it wasn’t. I feel it was on ownership and management.” (51:20)
• Thoughts on his video game cover, honest reasons why he doesn’t play WWE games, and how shows like Netflix’s “Unreal” can lure Casuals fans into wrestling.

E. Mina Kimes, NFL Analyst

Timestamp: [57:49–70:38]

• Friendly Patriots-Seahawks rivalry banter; personal Super Bowl stakes and memories.
• Proposes a friendly wager:
  • “If the Patriots win, I’ll send you a video saying something nice about the Patriots…” (62:14)
• Dissects the Super Bowl matchup—predicts a close, not blowout game:
  • Final predicted score: “I think my final score prediction was 27-24 [Seattle].” (69:58)
• Shares behind-the-scenes on her Great American Baking Show experience (“Paul Hollywood hates matcha!”) and fun podcast chemistry.

F. Kyle & Kristen Juszczyk (“The Uszczyks”)

Timestamp: [71:06–82:38]

• Promote the Flips Pretzel “coin flip” campaign.
• Kristen talks about her disruptive impact on female fan apparel—moving beyond pink T-shirts.
• Kyle touches on the team’s notorious injury streak and the 49ers’ resilience:
  • “I’ve missed seven games my entire life…I can’t sit here and say, ‘Oh I’m so injured because I’ve played for the Niners for nine years.’ That’s just not the case. I am just curious [about EMFs].” (75:09)
• Insight into the WAG network’s mutual support and personal lives during the Super Bowl.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Katie Nolan on Radio Row:
  “Everything’s great…but you’re just meeting people for six minutes at a time, and three of the minutes, they give a speech about whatever company they’re with.” (04:35)
• On Teddy Bruschi’s ring:
  “They were trying to take it from me. I said I would only hand it off straight to you.” (07:09)
• Diana Rossini on being an insider:
  “I try not to call anybody after 8 o’clock. I don’t want their girlfriends or wives...Like, why is this woman calling?” (28:28)
• Octavia Spencer on underdog sports stories:
  “You know who you’re rooting for. You’re always rooting for the underdog. At least I am.” (39:21)
• Dion Dawkins on meat logistics:
  “I’m actually in the process of shipping the meat from Buffalo to Florida. I’m gonna find a way to, like...I just have a party and give away a couple of burgers.” (44:15)
• CM Punk on sports fandom:
  “To me, hockey is like such a microcosm of life...You can’t do it alone. You need a support system. If you see someone picking on your little brother, you run over there and punch him in the face. There are consequences for that too.” (52:36)
• Mina Kimes on rooting strategies:
  “Sometimes I’ll be watching a sports event and I don’t know how much I care or what I want to happen until it begins.” (59:01)
• Kyle Juszczyk on the Niners’ injury woes:
  “As professional athletes, we’re so concerned with our health and being at our absolute best...If something is not healthy for us, I don’t want to be a part of it.” (74:40)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:44] Radio Row vibes and Patriots pride
• [04:30] Food drought and Bruschi ring saga
• [10:24] NBA trade deadline breakdown
• [15:44] Lindsey Vonn discussion
• [23:10] Diana Rossini interview
• [34:34] Octavia Spencer interview
• [41:10] Dion Dawkins interview
• [49:35] CM Punk interview
• [57:49] Mina Kimes interview, Super Bowl preview, baking show stories
• [71:06] Kyle & Kristen Juszczyk interview

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Episode Tone & Style

Cheerful, quick-witted, and deeply fan-oriented. Katie Nolan’s hosting style is affable, self-deprecating, and inclusive—the show’s sports insights are approachable, not intimidating. Inside jokes, candid admissions, and a welcoming “fan, not expert” atmosphere make this a sports podcast for everyone.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

Come for the gossip, stay for the heart. This episode is a fast-paced, wide-ranging celebration of sports culture with inside looks at both the NFL and NBA, sincere guest interviews, and cathartic reminiscence about Super Bowl history. Key takeaways include the unpredictable nature of fandom, the value of behind-the-scenes stories, and how pulling for the underdog unites athletes, fans, and celebrities alike.

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Next up: Another round of top-tier guests previewed for tomorrow—including Emmitt Smith, Warren Moon, Seth Rollins, Nikki Bella, Tim Howard, and Orange Cassidy. Stay tuned!

Transcript

[Katie Nolan]

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[Isabella]

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[Katie Nolan]

See terms. Hey, Isabella, did you see what Chapel Roan wore to the Grammys?

[Isabella]

I did, and I'm very, very surprised.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, everybody's like, got these hot takes on it. I didn't. It's a chest plate, right? It's not actually.

[Diana Rossini]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

And the reason why I'm surprised, I needed to clarify is how it's actually mesh.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. It looks so much like her skin.

[Isabella]

Yeah, that's how. So that's why I was like, how is this working? I'm interested to know. But no, it's funny.

[Katie Nolan]

I saw a moment on the carpet that I think it was Jamie Foxx went up to her and was like, I'm a big fan. My daughters are a big fan. I was introducing her. I could be getting who the celebrity was wrong, but some somebody with their daughters. And I was like, that's gotta be a. You gotta think of like, do I present you to my daughters with your breasts out? I don't know if I go like, hey, girls, this is. It was just funny to watch people try to figure out where they could tap her on the back to get her attention without it, like, alarming you of like, oh, oh, whoa. You don't want to accidentally catch side boob. But anyway, I thought she looked beautiful.

[Isabella]

Oh, she looks great. And I saw that it came. I think it came with like a cape that she used at some points, like around her shoulders, I guess maybe not to have at some points, boob out. But then she also had a different dress when she was on stage presenting, which was also really pretty.

[Katie Nolan]

She looked great. Yeah, she looked fantastic. I've done that. You ever gone to a wedding in a dress that you're like, this is a little booby? I'm gonna bring a sweater just in case. Just in case. In the moments when I don't feel like having those out right now. And it wasn't even close to her level of booby.

[Isabella]

Or when you're packing, like, a swimsuit for a vacation, you're like, do I wanna bring the one piece or the thong kind of bik.

[Katie Nolan]

Hello. Hello. We're in. It's Radio Roast. I don't want to scream hello because everybody's gonna look at me. Hello. It's Casuals. Welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast for people that might not listen to a lot of sports podcasts. We don't care what you know. We're just happy that you're here. I'm Katie Nolan, your host, coming to you live from Radio row Super Bowl 60 in San Francisco. It is day three of radio row, day two of us being here. I feel like I've been here for three weeks. I have seen everybody I've ever worked with. It's just like a big reunion, which is awesome and great. Also very disorienting and confusing. We've got a bunch of amazing guests that came by the set today to talk to us. We got Kyle and Christian Yusczyk. Coming up in a little bit. We got Diana Rossini, Mina Kimes, Dion Dawkins, Octavia Spencer, CM Punk, A ton of amazing guests on today's episode of Casuals. But before we get to that, I am joined by two of my lovely casualties. We have Isabella, our sports newbie.

[Isabella]

Hi.

[Katie Nolan]

And Chris, our wonderful editor.

[Mina Kimes]

Hi.

[Katie Nolan]

And we're all just on Zoom. I'm just sitting here on Zoom with the two of you to get you caught up on what's going on here at Radio Row. Crazy. It's really crazy. And honestly, the craziest part, the lack of food. The lack of food at the Radio Row to the point where, I guess Bounty is doing a thing where they give away wings and a Bounty paper towel, and it happens at the same time every day. And. And everybody's talking about it because we're all hungry. So people are like, hey, the Bounty opens in an hour because there's no food.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Do you want me to get you wings?

[Katie Nolan]

Kind of.

[Dion Dawkins]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

I do kind of want wings. Brady's Gonna go get me wings. Yes.

[Mina Kimes]

Thanks, Brady.

[Katie Nolan]

Brady's doing a great job. Boots on the ground. Here it is. This is a fever dream nightmare. It's all good. Everything's great. But it's just like you're just meeting with people for six minutes at a time, and three of the minutes, they give a speech about whatever company they're with to talk about. And it's just a very stilted social interaction with more people than you've seen in the last year of your life. So it's like, for those of us who, you know, took a little step back from sports media, being back into it like this, I like by one o', clock, when we're done with this, I gotta go to my room and just, like, sit in the dark for two hours and sit. Sounds like a lot of fun. It is. Here's the thing.

[Isabella]

It is.

[Katie Nolan]

But I do need food and I do need sleep. And I just. I'm hoping that this content is coming through and is good and fun for our listeners, because otherwise it wasn't worth it. You know what I mean? I'm getting anxious about the Patriots. I'm getting anxious about the Patriots playing in the Super Bowl. The closer we get to it, the more I'm getting a little scared. We talk about it with Mina, Obviously, Mina's a Seahawks fan, so we get into that in a little bit. But today, Isabella, you might not know this. Teddy Bruski was a guy who played for the Patriots in our. When we first started becoming the annoying super bowl winning team that we had become. And he came by the radio show today and had. He had on his super bowl ring and. Oh, I noticed that's why you had the ring.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

I noticed it as he was leaving, and I said, which one's that? He's like, oh, this is the 01. And he goes, you know what? I'm gonna go do a couple hits. Why don't you hold on to it? I'll come back and get it. And I was like, whoa. Okay. So I put the. I know. So I put the ring on, and I'm like, you know, taking pictures, holding it up next to my little Erin Andrews Patriots jacket that I'm wearing today. Just like, you know, great start to the day. I'm live on the radio and a man I've never seen before comes up to me and said, can I get Teddy's ring back? I need to go give that back to him. And I said, no. And he was like, what? You can't keep it. And I was like, no, I don't want to keep it. But I don't know you. Yeah, I don't know if you're the ring guy. I'm like, I need to see Teddy Brusky. I need him to come back. I will hand it to him if I hand it to you. And then in 20 minutes, Ted, Teddy comes back and goes, hey, Katie, where's my ring? And I go, I gave it to your ring guy. And he goes, I don't have a ring guy. I'd be like, why? Oh, my God. I was like, if I would think the same thing. And so I. But I'm like, live on the air, and they're going like, we need the ring. And I was like, I'm not giving it to you. I, like, put it in my pocket. I was like, I'm not. You can't have it back. And so then in the break, Nate was like, you know, he's. Or the guy who was trying to pick up the ring was like, we can bring it over. You can bring it over to him. He was on the other. We are in a corner of radio row. It's like, in a big conference room center or whatever. He was on the complete other side. So in a break from radio, I, like, sprinted through radio row and handed it to him. And he obviously had been doing hits, so nobody had told him this was happening. And so all of a sudden, he just sees me poke him and go, here. I was like, I didn't want to give this to anybody else. They were trying to take it from me. And I said, I would only hand it off straight to you. And he just was like, okay. But I felt crazy, the way they were all looking at me. I was like, are you guys nuts? I don't know you. Why would I give you the most expensive thing I've ever held in my hand? I felt like a monster, but I was, like, not giving this back to you. I felt like Putin. I was like, my ring, now. You shouldn't put it on my finger if you didn't want me to keep it. You know what I'm saying? Brewski? Maybe you should have thought of that.

[Mina Kimes]

He's gonna appreciate that, though, the fact that you're not just gonna give it away willy nilly. I just.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm hoping somebody explained it to him because I was in such a rush. I ran up, I handed it to him, and I left. I'm hoping somebody was like, yeah, we tried to take it from her, and she wouldn't give it to us unless you Handed it to you. Otherwise, he's probably like, that Katie Nolan's a psycho. I don't know what her fucking deal is.

[Isabella]

Never gonna give her my ring ever again.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, that. Lady needs to get it together. I was anxious about wearing a. A Patriots jacket today. Cause, listen, you know, you're in the media. You're not supposed to root for the. But I'm like, I don't think that. I don't think that applies to us anymore. I feel like the point of this podcast is that we're fans, and I feel like it's okay. And so for that reason, I did wear my Patriots jacket today. How do we feel about that? Right call? Wrong call.

[Mina Kimes]

Absolutely the right right call.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Well, you never know. Sometimes people are like, what's on the back?

[Isabella]

Is it the logo? Those Patriots logo, or.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's try to find out. I don't know. I think it says Patriots.

[Isabella]

Oh, that's what the other side of radio row looks like. Oh, it's like a. It's a Navy. I don't know what it says, but it's.

[Katie Nolan]

I think it says Patriots. I think it's a silk. This, I believe. Okay, so this is, like, an Erin Andrews jacket. And, you know, she has, like, a fashion line for. For sports memorabilia stuff. And I. It showed up to my house a few years ago, and I just. No note. Didn't say who it was from or what it. Oh, my God, the wings are here. Oh, my God, the wings are here. Oh, Brady, thank you so much.

[Isabella]

I thought you said Wayans, like the Wayans brothers. I was like, I would.

[Diana Rossini]

I would react the same way, too.

[Isabella]

The Wayans brothers are here.

[Mina Kimes]

Oh, looking good.

[Katie Nolan]

What are these sauces?

[CM Punk]

Don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

We don't know what the sauces are. Okay, we'll get the blue cheese.

[Isabella]

The.

[Katie Nolan]

Away for me forever.

[Mina Kimes]

I did also think that when you said bounty before, you were talking about the chocolate bar and not the paper towels.

[Katie Nolan]

That's very Australian of you. We do not have a Bounty chocolate bar here in America.

[Mina Kimes]

And then I had to Google both and make sure I was thinking of the right words.

[Katie Nolan]

If they gave you chicken wings and a chocolate bar, and you're just like, I don't know what to do with this. This looks like honey mustard, does it not?

[Isabella]

It kind of also looks like a. It could be a chipotle mayo kind of thing.

[Katie Nolan]

Or no, no mayo, but it could be a chipotle kind of. It has seeds in it, bro. I don't. Why wouldn't you just give wing sauce Eat a wing on camera. I mean, the audio is not going to be good. No, I'll eat a wing while Chris tells us what's going on with the NBA trade deadline. Because I'm in. I am in a football hole here, but I just think that I heard that AD Got traded from the Mavs. He did.

[Mina Kimes]

To the Wizards, which Isabella expressed to me earlier when I told her the news. Wasn't AD the one who the Mavericks traded Luka Doncic for? And the answer is yes, very much yes, Isabella. He is the one that the Mavericks trade traded for in exchange for Luka Doncic. And now they have on traded him to the Wizards for a whole host of players, including Chris Middleton, A.J. johnson, Malachi Branham, Marvin Bagley. The third, two first round draft picks and three second rounders, according to sources. And along with A.D. the matters will be sending Jaden Hardy, D' Angelo Russell and Australian superstar Dante Exum to the Wizard. So a big trade here. A lot of players going back and forth. The obvious big takeaway from this is that the Mavs decision to trade Luka Doncic further makes. Further. Makes no sense. Further continues to make sense. I don't know how to word that, but it sucks.

[Katie Nolan]

Makes continue to not make any sense.

[Isabella]

Maybe that's a sign, guys. You can always change your mind, you know.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I guess it could technically be.

[Mina Kimes]

A signed your mind before making the decision. Now, this is obviously a different front office than what made the trade in the first place, but it does. It doesn't look good. And I think AD only played 26 games or something like that. 29 games.

[Katie Nolan]

Because he was hurt right when they got him.

[Mina Kimes]

Yes. Because he's always injured.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Mina Kimes]

This isn't a new development. Anthony Davis has been injury prone his entire career.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

What are the. What are the Wizards up to? They up to something.

[Mina Kimes]

I don't know. It's. It's sort of.

[Isabella]

This sort of spells.

[Mina Kimes]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Katie Nolan]

She knows she's got a finger on the pulse.

[Mina Kimes]

There's so many players involved in this trade that it's sort of hard for me on the fly to figure out what I think of it. Apart from Mavericks continuing to look like losers.

[Katie Nolan]

I just, I feel bad for Mavs fans, man. It's a lot. It's a whiplash. It's like a. You know, you try to probably make.

[Mina Kimes]

Yourself Celtics last night. Katie.

[Katie Nolan]

I know it's tough. We were all watching that. Didn't our Celtics get somebody at this trade deadline? Weren't we involved in one of these big trades?

[Mina Kimes]

Nikola Vucevic got traded for Anthony. Dave. Anthony Davis, Anthony Simons. My goodness. All these Anthony's and Anthony's. So it sort of gives the Celtics a big man who the team has been looking for all season. When they acquired Anthony Simons at the beginning of the season, I think everyone realized that he was going to be a player that Brett Stevens would probably move on before the trade deadline. That is what happened. We needed. Or the Celtics needed, another big man. We were very thin in that area. So it was a good move from an on court perspective. Was a good move from a salary cap perspective. We've got a very big traded player Exception Now, a $27 million TPE, which I. I won't go into detail with what that is because a lot of casuals don't care, but it just gives the Celtics a lot of flexibility both for the rest of the trade period, which I think we've got about 24 hours to go, I think. I think it ends tomorrow as well as the end of the season. So it's a good move overall from the Celtics.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's tpe. Isabella, what do you think that stands for?

[Isabella]

Terrifying Physical Education.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice. That's. Yeah, that's what I class when I was in high school. Okay, so that sums up the trade deadline, right? That covers all of our bases.

[Mina Kimes]

And then James Harden. James Harden from the Clippers to the Cavaliers, which, as my Cavaliers friend texted me last night when it happened, shit. Yeah, Harden could be good, but he just. He sucks to watch, man.

[Dion Dawkins]

He's not.

[Mina Kimes]

He's not a fun player to watch.

[Diana Rossini]

Everybody hates him.

[Katie Nolan]

Why is that?

[Mina Kimes]

It's the brand of basketball that he plays. I don't know how much this has changed in the last couple of years, but when he was in his prime, he was such an unfun player to watch that I stopped watching him. So he could have completely turned a corner in the last couple of years. And this could be a take from 2022. But the fact that he just sucked to watch for so long means I haven't watched him in a long time. And damn, not a good move for the Cavs. But we'll see how it turns out for him.

[Katie Nolan]

We'll see how it turns out. Still no word on Giannis. I guess it's possible we finished this trade deadline and he doesn't move, which is just always. I always think how awkward that must be to just like, everybody's talking about where you're gonna go. Everybody's making offers for what they want to give for you. And then the trade deadline comes and goes, and you're like, I'm staying here.

[Mina Kimes]

It's not uncommon for these bigger trades to, you know, drop at the very last minute minute, though.

[Katie Nolan]

Very true.

[Mina Kimes]

All the coverage is centered around the. The deadline. You've got the TV specials going on. You know, there's a little bit of theater that gets put into these things. So you don't surprise me if they're waiting until the last moment to drop it.

[Katie Nolan]

All right, keep your eyes peeled, everybody. Maybe next. Maybe tomorrow from Radio row, we'll have an update for you. And then a thing I saw I wanted to chat about very quickly before we get into these amazing interviews. Do you guys see the story about Lindsey Vaughn? Lindsey Vaughn is a skier, obviously an American treasure. We love her. She's making a big comeback this year. Tore her ACL while getting ready for the Olympics and still says she's gonna compete.

[Mina Kimes]

Insane.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, I. I guess I don't know enough about ACLs to know if that's, like, a good idea. I know she doesn't have a ton of time left. And it's. I would imagine when you put this much work into a comeback, and it's. I mean, truly. They've made commercials about it. NBC's Olympic commercials are about Lindsey Vonn making her return. And so I can imagine it's not easy to just go like, well, guess I can't. But I just. This says. Experts say it is possible. Competing with a torn ACL is risky, but possible. And I guess Lindsey Von has done it before, but I just. I wonder if there's something to do.

[Isabella]

With the body movements of skiing.

[Katie Nolan]

That's what I was her to not.

[Isabella]

Have to stress that part as much. I don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

So the like, thing about ACLs they always talk about in football is that, like, technically, it's only when you're trying to, like, move laterally and like use your knee like that that it's hurts. It's. Otherwise you could walk on it and put like weight on your leg and not. It's not like an Achilles where if you tear an Achilles, it's like, you're not walking on that foot. That's crazy. But that being said, is skiing not just a series of using your knees? Aren't you, like, going down a hill like this? Yeah. You know.

[Mina Kimes]

You know what we always say on the show, Katie?

[Katie Nolan]

What's that?

[Mina Kimes]

Can't measure heart.

[Katie Nolan]

You can't measure heart. We always say that on this podcast, always. So, I mean, I guess good luck to her. She's 41. She. It's her left knee. Completely ruptured ACL with bone bruising plus meniscal damage. I think that's how you say that. Yeah. She says it's not. Not swollen. She's got a knee brace and she's confident that she can compete. So I don't know. That's scary to me. I don't like it. I don't want her to lose a leg. You know what I mean? I don't know what's the worst that could happen. I just don't want it to happen on the Olympics. I like a feel good story for the Olympics. I know it's a real bummer and I was excited to see her, but yikes, that just seems crazy to me. We're gonna take a quick break and then when we come back, it's just gonna kind of be a supercut of all of these tiny, little adorable, fun interviews From Radio row Super Bowl 60. We got Diana Rossini, Mina Kimes, the Used Chicks, CM Punk, Dion Dawkins and Octavia Spencer. 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Show up start to finish with hydration from Liquid IV Hydration Multiplier. Sugar Free Tear Pour Live more. Go to LiquidIV.com and get 20 off your first order with Casuals at checkout. That's 20 off your first order using code [e-mail] Ladies and gentlemen, Diana Rossini report, Senior NFL Insider. Come a long way, Katie for the athletic. A dear friend of mine. I haven't seen you in how long?

[Diana Rossini]

I like that you prefaced it that way. Dear friend. I love that, but can't remember when I saw you last.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know, because time, the way time moves. It was during the pandemic.

[Diana Rossini]

It was. We were really close at one point, which we were. I adore you.

[Katie Nolan]

It was until you told me you didn't like my dog.

[Diana Rossini]

That's what it was.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's when I said, we went on a date. We can take a break.

[Diana Rossini]

We went on a walk together. I was in the, the city you live in and. And you said, oh, why don't you come?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't live there anymore.

[Diana Rossini]

You don't?

[Katie Nolan]

I live in the big city now. Oh, I know. Pretty cool.

[Diana Rossini]

All right. So then now I.

[Kristen]

And we went.

[Diana Rossini]

We had to go pick up your dog. Now, what was your dog?

[Katie Nolan]

Stella? Myrtle. How dare you. Myrtle. Myrtle.

[Diana Rossini]

I, I didn't like.

[Katie Nolan]

She's six now. She just, she just turned six.

[Diana Rossini]

Well, congrats to my Myrtle.

[Katie Nolan]

Shut up. Shut up.

[Diana Rossini]

No, I, first of all, I, for those dog people out there. I love dogs. Please don't come at me.

[Katie Nolan]

It's just mine.

[Diana Rossini]

It was, I think I was pregnant.

[Katie Nolan]

It was right before. It was before you had the baby. I don't. You might have been.

[Diana Rossini]

Yeah, I was pregnant because I remember.

[Katie Nolan]

You going, you just picked the poop up like that. And I'm like, lady, you're about to deal with so much poop, you don't even know.

[Diana Rossini]

And then I remember after I had my first son, I came and we met up for. For brunch and I was just all out of sorts.

[Katie Nolan]

I remember sitting there like, oh, yeah, with Cassidy. I love that. It was a nice. That place is good. I missed. That was also Hoboken. Avocado toast. Yeah, that's. That is where I used to live. My biggest memory from this hangout, which I, I now I think about this every day, is that you had to take a call. It was like a, Was it a pre show meeting? I don't know what it was. You had to do something and you did it in the lobby of my building and you were just on a FaceTime with Mike Frable. And she just turns the phone. She's like, I'm with Katie Nolan. She's a big Pats fan. Katie Nolan's here. And I was like, hi, Mike Vull. It's very nice to meet you. I think it was.

[Diana Rossini]

He must have been in Tennessee. And maybe it was the AFC championship game. It was something big because I remember we had to do like a pre interview thing of like, hey, here's some topics we're going to do. And I remember you being like, oh, my God. You're like, what is your life?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

You know what's funny? I. I've discovered that coaches, even players, they love to FaceTime. I hate it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

I don't answer.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm like, yeah, I was gonna say, do you answer when you get a rogue FaceTime?

[Diana Rossini]

So during the coaching carousel this last three weeks where it was crazy, coaches get up early because they're weird and they're just attacking the day. So it was like 4:45 and I was on FaceTimes in my Christmas pajamas and I was like, like, my husband came out, he's like, don't. Don't you want to put like a.

[Katie Nolan]

No.

[Diana Rossini]

Like a blazer on?

[Katie Nolan]

No, I don't.

[Diana Rossini]

I'm like, at this point, the boundaries are, are they. They. They do not exist.

[Katie Nolan]

It's. I mean, I'm always. Whenever I get a FaceTime, I'm like, I what do I got to run and put an outfit on? I got to put makeup on. I'm like, not just sitting around hot all the time. I look pretty nasty 90% of the time.

[Diana Rossini]

I cold call FaceTime, Mina. Because.

[Katie Nolan]

Because you're rude.

[Diana Rossini]

Because it's rude. I do it because I know she thinks it's annoying.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Does she pick up for you? No. She texts, leave me alone, please. Who is Lose my number.

[Diana Rossini]

Lose one.

[Brady]

She.

[Diana Rossini]

She was in my phone for a while. Lose my number. Do you know the background of that? Lose my number, Sir? Do you know what?

[Katie Nolan]

No. I literally just said it because I was joking. I don't know anything.

[Diana Rossini]

So it's a real. It's a true thing. So it was tree agency, and at the time, we didn't know what Aaron Rodgers was doing.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I mean, do we ever.

[Diana Rossini]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And here we are again. What are you doing?

[Diana Rossini]

And Schefter and I were sitting in like the green room outside the set, and he's like, what do you got? What do you got? What Are people telling you?

[Katie Nolan]

I'm like, I don't know.

[Diana Rossini]

I'm like, I got his number. I'm like, I'm gonna call him. He's like, you're just gonna cold call Aaron Rodgers. I was like, yeah, how do you do this? I just called like, you're the best at this. You don't call people. And he's like, I just.

[Katie Nolan]

You know.

[Diana Rossini]

So I was like, I'm just. I'm gonna do it. So I call him. He doesn't answer. So Schefter. Then all of a sudden, he's like, you know what?

[Katie Nolan]

I'm gonna text him.

[Diana Rossini]

Give me the number. So give him the number. And he texts, hey, this is Adam Schefter.

[Katie Nolan]

Where are you going?

[Diana Rossini]

Where are you playing?

[Katie Nolan]

It's the craziest text, right? Go get him.

[Diana Rossini]

And Rogers writes back, lose my number.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, my God. And we read it on the air.

[Diana Rossini]

Because we're like, who cares?

[Katie Nolan]

Of course.

[Diana Rossini]

So I have a. Somebody made a shirt. I have a shirt of me and Adam. Or it's actually just Adam. To lose my number.

[Katie Nolan]

Very funny. You gave him horrible intel. He followed your advice and then got in trouble with the source.

[Diana Rossini]

Yeah. Don't ever.

[Katie Nolan]

Senior NFL insider Diana Rossini. How's it going? Being an insider seems like a difficult job. More difficult of a job for a woman, if I'm honest, because of the amount of, like, cold calling and, like, reaching out to people. That you have to do.

[Diana Rossini]

Yeah, no, that I. I actually think being a woman helps because players will tell you things that I don't truly believe they'd ever tell a man.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

About stuff that's going on with them, how they're feeling about their journey, what they're going through mentally with their teammates. If they're in a rut, they just open up a little bit more. So to. To sum it up, I think being a woman helps in that regard, but they're. They're definitely challenges. Like, I try not to call anybody after 8 o'.

[Isabella]

Clock.

[Diana Rossini]

I don't want their girlfriends or wives.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Diana Rossini]

Like, why is this woman calling? People know who I am in the space now, so it makes sense. But, yeah, you always have to.

[Katie Nolan]

You're always thinking that when you're starting out, is that like a difficult. Like a genuine thing? You have to be like, I'm not hitting on you. I'm an insider. I'm just. I want to know information. I'm not hitting on you. I'm not interested.

[Diana Rossini]

So I ran up to an owner at a meeting once, and I said, hi. You know, Diane Orsini from the Athletic would love to get your phone number. I do tons of stories on your team. I'd love to run things by you. He's like, sure. And his comms director called me later, was like, by the way, he was very confused why you wanted his number. He did not know what that was about an owner.

[Katie Nolan]

He didn't think maybe for a sec that you'd be too young to be asking for his number or giving him your number for any other reason.

[Diana Rossini]

There's a lot of jokes I could make right there.

[Katie Nolan]

But in the old Diana would have made him.

[Isabella]

I know.

[Diana Rossini]

I mean, the New York Times, Diana.

[Katie Nolan]

She'S got to be the Gray Lady.

[Diana Rossini]

I, I, I miss that ripping. Like the fact that ESPN thought it was was a good idea to put me and you on a red carpet. It was on a live stream.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. A mess.

[Diana Rossini]

Poor Cassidy with Here's the part that we never give Cassidy grace in that situation. There were significant amount of NBA players, which is her world.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

We saw maybe two football players. So I did not care. I just was asking the most.

[Katie Nolan]

You were mayhem. You were like complete mayhem. You were chaotic neutral. You were just asking random stuff.

[Diana Rossini]

She represented class and credibility. Yes, I was a clown car and.

[Katie Nolan]

Who knows what I had.

[Diana Rossini]

No, you were cleaning up the edge. You were like, someone has to be professional here. And I'm gonna be that.

[Katie Nolan]

Can you believe it?

[Diana Rossini]

But entertaining.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Can you believe it?

[Diana Rossini]

And you saved me many times too in that situation. But yeah, I do miss those days of just letting it go. But usually you don't have a big title when you, when you're in those positions.

[Katie Nolan]

I know who's going to win the Super Bowl, Diana. That's what I really want to know.

[Diana Rossini]

I think the Patriots are going to win.

[Katie Nolan]

You're the finally the first person to say that to me. I know.

[Diana Rossini]

I, I, I changed my mind when I was walking over here because I saw your jacket. No, I, I, I think weird things happen at the Super Bowl. I think it's too obvious on paper that Seattle's better. Like they, they already bet her team. Sure, they do things better on offense and defense than the New England Patriots, but I think this Patriots team has a little bit of an underdog mentality. They know they shouldn't be here. They weren't supposed to be this good. And the most dangerous players, in my opinion, are those that are just playing freely, just letting it rip. And I think this Patriots team is.

[Katie Nolan]

Going to let it rip.

[Diana Rossini]

And that's going to work to their advantage.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm so excited. I'm excited, I'm nervous, I'm anxious, but everybody's talking about it like it's going to be a blowout. Everybody was like, oh, whoever wins the NFC Championship game is going to win the Super Bowl. I know.

[Diana Rossini]

I think they're. They're overlooking the small details of the collective game. I think it's going to come down to coaching.

[Dion Dawkins]

Look at.

[Diana Rossini]

Sean Payton is a brilliant mind. He is a smart human who pays attention to details, who knows the rules, who is obsessive about officiating. And he made mistakes in the AFC Championship Game that.

[Katie Nolan]

That the Patriots got to get the points.

[Diana Rossini]

They took advantage of him, though. There's tons of other scenarios in that game, though.

[Katie Nolan]

We're going for. It's the. Right.

[Diana Rossini]

Where they were out, where he was out coached.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

And. And Mike McDonald is a darn good coach. But if I had a. If. If we were to go down a list of, like, you taking this offense or this off and this coaching set, like, I'm going. New England's coaching staff and. And the way they approach games and the way they manage throughout the games.

[Katie Nolan]

What's up with Belichick getting snubbed for the hall of Fame?

[Diana Rossini]

Look, I. I think if you had robots doing this, he would be in because they would go by the numbers. Yeah, but human beings are voters. People vote with emotion. People have personal vendettas. And I think that's what happened here. It's. It's ridiculous. Like, it makes no sense. And I think Brady recently was like, now I'm worried I'm not going to get in, which. Which I think is just bad for. For. For the hall in general, because obviously, Belichick has had so much respect for it over the years, and. And I'm sure that's changed now. I sent him a text right after it happened.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, me too.

[Diana Rossini]

What'd you say?

[Katie Nolan]

I'm kidding. I don't have his number.

[Diana Rossini]

I should have FaceTimed him.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Been like, katie Nolan. She's made fun of your girlfriend quite a bit. But what'd you say to him?

[Diana Rossini]

She's having a big party, huh?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know. I'm not invited. What did you say to him?

[Diana Rossini]

Hey, can I get you on the record, your reaction to this? And he wrote back, no, but. And then he shared something that he didn't want me to share.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

Which was essentially like, everyone's gonna probably go out and fight this thing, and that's what we're doing like everyone. Nobody agrees with it.

[Katie Nolan]

I know as one person, it's the nicest. I think people have spoken about Belichick in a while, coming to his defense on this.

[Diana Rossini]

I was just on Boston radio and they were. They were asking me about Belichick in the coaching cycle. I said, this actually may help him.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

I think everyone is so sympathetic and feels bad. First for him because he deserves to be in it because of everything he's accomplished.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. What parties are you going to? We got a wrap. What do you. What do you got to. Anything you're going to bring me to.

[Diana Rossini]

Why would I bring you to a party? Have I ever brought you to one?

[Katie Nolan]

No, but you've, like. I've seen you bring other people to parties, and I like to party.

[Diana Rossini]

Talking about I've snuck you into many of our lives.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[Kristen]

That's right.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, I had to pretend to be Rose Lavelle, which was the scariest moment of my life, but it worked.

[Diana Rossini]

Oh, LeBron.

[Katie Nolan]

All right. Go home. Go away from me. I love you so much.

[Diana Rossini]

I love you, too.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm so happy to see you.

[Diana Rossini]

Congratulations and everything.

[Katie Nolan]

Hey, thanks.

[Diana Rossini]

I have two children now.

[Katie Nolan]

I know.

[Diana Rossini]

I have two boys.

[Katie Nolan]

Boy, mom, you coming through and through. Come join this side of it, of having children? No, never. No more dogs. But I'll come meet your boys. I remember the first time I met Diana and she told me she had three. Three little girls at home. And I believed her because I'm just a nice girl.

[Diana Rossini]

You said I was 47, and now I'm 40. I'm not 47.

[Katie Nolan]

You're close.

[Diana Rossini]

Shut up.

[Katie Nolan]

You're close. You look great for 50, I'll tell you that.

[Diana Rossini]

Thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

I love you so much, Diana Rossini.

[Isabella]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

Bye. Octavia Spencer. I can't believe you're here. Academy Award winning actress. You know her from a million things. Joining us now on behalf of Berringer's Detect the SOS Health Mission, award winning actor, Octavia Spencer. Thank you for being here.

[Octavia Spencer]

Thank you for having me.

[Katie Nolan]

Talk to me about the work that you're doing with Behringer's.

[Octavia Spencer]

Well, Sofia Vergara and I have a commercial that's airing during the Big Game.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, wow.

[Octavia Spencer]

We are both a part of a collective, the Detect the SOS campaign with, as you said, Behringer, some amazing organizations. The National Kidney foundation, the American Diabetes Association, Mended Hearts, Women Heart. All of us are a part of a collective to make people aware of UACR screening and what that is. I Like, so many Americans suffer from type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. And for those of us who have those illnesses, we are more at risk for chronic kidney disease.

[Diana Rossini]

Oh, wow.

[Octavia Spencer]

And the only way to know that if your kidneys are functioning correctly with those illnesses is to have a uacr, which is a simple urine test. So while Sophia and I are having fun in this commercial to tell people to detect the sos, it's a serious mission that we're on to educate people about that. And it's. I actually took the test. It was easy. A simple urine test. And I know that my kidneys are functioning amazing. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Hey, congrats.

[Octavia Spencer]

Thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

That's huge. I mean, it's so important to raise awareness for stuff like that. I feel like every time I go to the doctor, I'm like, do I need to bring information? And so having information like that is very valuable, especially for something like diabetes. I know a lot of Americans struggle with that. What was it like being in a Super bowl commercial?

[Octavia Spencer]

I have to tell you, it was pretty fun. I mean, the thing is, it's like a mini movie that she did.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

They're like, such big productions.

[Octavia Spencer]

It's so wonderful. It was so much fun. And Sophia, amazing, funny action. The two of us realize we want to work together a lot.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, that'd be fun. Oh, something to look forward to. I'm also looking forward to the commercial. I feel like. Yeah, I've seen a lot of, like, previews for commercials now. Have you noticed that they're doing that? And I'm like, save it for the day. Save it for the big day for this, so that we can have the big reveal of the two of you working together in a Super bowl commercial. I'm very excited. Talk to me about sports, your relationship with sports. Our podcast is. Is called Casuals. We are a sports podcast, but we sort of aim towards a more casual fan. Cause I think a lot of sports media can talk kind of over people and be a little boring sometimes in a room full of them. So I don't want to get in any fights. But I do think that, like, sometimes a more casual fan needs a more entertaining podcast to talk about sports. And so I think people would be really interested to know you're from the South. I know football. College football is big in the South. Did you grow up a sports fan?

[Octavia Spencer]

Yes, I actually did. I grew up in a sports. It's funny because all of us are girls, six girls and one boy, but we are basketball fans, and we are football fans.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Octavia Spencer]

And in The South. Football is an institution.

[Dion Dawkins]

College football.

[Octavia Spencer]

I mean, so we, yeah, it's a natural progression to go into becoming fans of professional teams. But I still am a huge college sports fan.

[Katie Nolan]

So who's your, who do you root for?

[Octavia Spencer]

Well, I, I'm an Auburn alum.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, of course.

[Octavia Spencer]

I, I, I root for Auburn across all spectrums and, and every sport and. But here's the thing. I've learned how important it is to also win that other team from my home state. State of Alabama wins. I've learned to be proud for the state.

[Katie Nolan]

But I, and that's very diplomatic of you.

[Octavia Spencer]

Listen, listen, I'm an Auburn fan.

[Katie Nolan]

I can tell that it pains you. It pains you to even say it pains me. And you barely even did say. But I do like the diplomacy of when the state is up. I'm happy for them. You obviously were in a sports movie. Yes, in 2005, Coach Carter did that. What was that experience like?

[Octavia Spencer]

Oh, it was amazing. To work with Samuel L. Jackson.

[Katie Nolan]

Amazing.

[Octavia Spencer]

But that's where I met Channing Tatum, who was also from Alabama before.

[Katie Nolan]

Always forget that.

[Octavia Spencer]

Yeah, he's from Alabama.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Octavia Spencer]

Channing was in that film. Robert, Richard. So many amazing young actors that, you know, that we still know today. And I have to tell you, sport, I love sports movies.

[Katie Nolan]

You know, they're the best.

[Octavia Spencer]

They actually are. Because you know who you're rooting for. You know, you're always rooting for the underdog. At least I am.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Do you have a favorite, I mean, outside of Coach Carter, do you have a favorite sports movie?

[Octavia Spencer]

I loved Remember the Titans.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Octavia Spencer]

But I also love the television show Friday Night Lights.

[Katie Nolan]

So good.

[Octavia Spencer]

I loved Rudy, but there's a, there's a theme here. Yeah, but the fish that saved Pittsburgh, too. That's a long time about that movie.

[Katie Nolan]

I had never heard of that in my life. And so I do a radio call in show. Somebody called in and was like, you gotta watch this movie.

[Octavia Spencer]

You gotta watch it.

[Katie Nolan]

It's about like. What's it called? Gemini. Gemini. Scorpio, whatever those are called. What is that? The, the zodiac.

[Octavia Spencer]

Zodiac.

[Katie Nolan]

And it's like using the zodiac sign to build a roster. Hilarious.

[Octavia Spencer]

It was.

[Katie Nolan]

It's great.

[Octavia Spencer]

If you haven't seen it.

[Isabella]

I haven't.

[Octavia Spencer]

Oh, my God. I loved it.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, I'm gonna go watch it. It's a deep cut.

[Octavia Spencer]

Well, well, well before your time.

[Katie Nolan]

So what? I'm interested. I'm into it. A deep cut from Octavia's fans.

[Octavia Spencer]

We are casual.

[Katie Nolan]

Exactly. Octavia, thank you so much for Coming. Thank you. It was so nice. It's so important, the work that you're doing with Beringers. Thank you again for coming by and raising awareness about the UACR screening. So important. You're the best. Can't wait to see your super bowl commercial.

[Octavia Spencer]

Thank you. I can't wait for you guys to. To see it.

[Katie Nolan]

Amazing. Have a fun time on Radio Row. I know it's a lot. If anyone's mean to you, send them to me. Okay.

[Octavia Spencer]

It's a big tailgate and nobody has any hot dogs.

[Katie Nolan]

I know. There's no food.

[Octavia Spencer]

It's like.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a food desert.

[Octavia Spencer]

We need a hot dog.

[Katie Nolan]

The energy in here is like food, but there is no food. There is no food.

[Octavia Spencer]

Should we tell them casual? You guys might need to have some hot dogs, some baked beans, chicken wings.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, please.

[Octavia Spencer]

I mean, some ranch.

[Katie Nolan]

Some dips. Yeah, give us some fries, something to dip some stuff in.

[CM Punk]

Please.

[Katie Nolan]

It is soup season. It's super bowl season. As the official soup of the NFL, it only makes sense that Chunky is here at the super bowl with a soup bowl being carried around by Dion Dawkins. Are you going to eat it?

[Octavia Spencer]

I think you should eat it right now.

[Dion Dawkins]

I just wanted a piece of gum in my mouth. I just had a whole bowl in the back.

[Katie Nolan]

What is. What flavor is that there?

[Dion Dawkins]

Let's see. Match it. Let's see what you can do.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Dion Dawkins]

Is that chili Mac?

[Katie Nolan]

Is that buffalo style chicken Mac or sirloin? Yeah, it's got to be chili Mac. That looks tasty.

[Dion Dawkins]

This is definitely chili mat.

[Katie Nolan]

Can I ask, is it an honor to be.

[Isabella]

Is.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, my God. Hell, yeah. Here we go.

[Dion Dawkins]

Right?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. That's hot.

[Dion Dawkins]

Now I'm chewing, like, chili Mac and, like, orbit gum at the same time.

[Katie Nolan]

Why didn't you spit the gum out? Are you crazy? Oh, my God.

[Dion Dawkins]

I'm a lineman. Like, lineman don't, like. We don't really care about stuff like that.

[Katie Nolan]

I see. About the way food tastes in your mouth.

[Dion Dawkins]

Not really. It's all going down the same spot.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. That's nuts. You're crazy.

[Dion Dawkins]

I'm a big difference.

[Katie Nolan]

Thank you for being here, Dion. It's an honor. I was going to ask, is it, like, an honor to do Campbell's because of all the, like, NFL players that have done Campbell's. It feels like an actual. It's a cool thing.

[Dion Dawkins]

You know, I have. It is very cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

You know, I would love to do the national commercial, like, with my mom one day.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

So hoping that we can do the Commercial like. Like with my mom.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

Hoping we can do the national commercial with my mom, please. Campbell's, you know, so charming. You know, I would. I would love it. My mom is actually here, too. And is she here now?

[Katie Nolan]

She's here.

[Dion Dawkins]

She should be floating.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I mean, radio rose a lot. I'm sure she's like, what is all of this?

[Dion Dawkins]

It's a lot.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Pro Bowl.

[Isabella]

How was it?

[Katie Nolan]

Probably cool.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

I'm thankful that in flag now. I don't know if you knew.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

The center could snap.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know if you knew.

[Dion Dawkins]

So. So, like the center that snaps the ball.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

He can go out for a pass and catch touchdowns.

[Katie Nolan]

Damn.

[Dion Dawkins]

So it's super cool.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

Super cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Now you had fun.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yeah, I have fun.

[Katie Nolan]

And people like to knock on it. But I feel like for you guys, it must be pretty cool still to just, like, hang out.

[Dion Dawkins]

I'm going to say this right. This Pro bowl has been definitely changed in ways, but it's still an honor to. To. To be there. Like, you're still amongst the best I've been to pro Bowls when we were in pads, playing in Pro bowl to when it switched to flag, so I enjoyed the pads. It was cool. It was more rougher, but it is in what it is. But I think that the Pro bowl does change a player's life, so I would rather have it than. Than not.

[Katie Nolan]

Hell, yeah. That's cool. I'm sure it was cooler with pads, but at the same time, I'm glad you guys don't have to play an extra football game.

[Dion Dawkins]

Absolutely.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a lot of football games. Something. We were fascinated with our podcast casuals about you this season. You got a quarter. Was it a quarter of a cow?

[Dion Dawkins]

Oh, from Josh.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, from Josh and Haley.

[Dion Dawkins]

A quarter of a cow from Joshua Allen.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

How. What does quantify that? Is that. Do you have, like, a special freezer you had to put that in?

[Dion Dawkins]

I'm going tell you the truth. I had to throw food away.

[Katie Nolan]

I bet that's what I said.

[Dion Dawkins]

Put food in.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

And I have a freezer in the garage as well. So, like. Yeah, it was. It's a. It's a lot of. It's a lot of meat.

[Katie Nolan]

Have you eaten it all yet?

[Dion Dawkins]

Huh?

[Katie Nolan]

Have you eaten it all yet?

[Dion Dawkins]

Absolutely not. I have not even started.

[Katie Nolan]

No way.

[Dion Dawkins]

I promise you, I've not even started because, like, we got around Christmas.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

So, you know, Christmas is towards the end of the season.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Dion Dawkins]

Then we only had a couple of weeks, and then sadly, and we lost. And then after that, traveling started. So I'm actually in the process of shipping the meat from Buffalo to Florida. I'm gonna find a way to, like.

[Katie Nolan]

And then you're just gonna go to town on it.

[Dion Dawkins]

Was it like, ice package or something like that?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I think. Yeah, somebody can figure that out.

[Dion Dawkins]

I just have a party and give away a couple of burgers and.

[Katie Nolan]

How much meat is that? It's like.

[Dion Dawkins]

It is a lot of meat.

[Katie Nolan]

Which quarter of the cow is it? Is it, like, the butt?

[Dion Dawkins]

I didn't. You know, I'm. Hopefully it's like all the ass.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, hopefully it's all. All the meaty parts.

[Dion Dawkins]

I guess it's all the meaty part. Like, that's what I. I would think, but I don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

I should have led with this.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Incredible job in that Hallmark Bills movie.

[Dion Dawkins]

Oh, that was cool.

[Katie Nolan]

It was really good. Did you watch it?

[Dion Dawkins]

Of course.

[Katie Nolan]

You did.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

Like.

[Dion Dawkins]

Like, there was, like, the premiere, like, where we all, like, went, and that was super cool. I felt like a movie star.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, you looked like a movie star.

[Dion Dawkins]

And then we did the. And then we watched it, like, on a regular day, like, when it came out as a family. It's pretty dope.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it's cool. You're in a movie. You're a movie star. You can say that now.

[Dion Dawkins]

My actor.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

Not a star.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Dion Dawkins]

I want to be a movie star, like Tom Cruise or Dave Bautista.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. The two very random names, but I.

[Dion Dawkins]

Like it, so what would you expect me to say?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know. It's just. I didn't think you're going to say Tom, like Tom Cruise or Dave.

[Dion Dawkins]

But anybody that I would have said was and was random, I could have said the Rock. You'd have been, like, random.

[Katie Nolan]

No, I mean, at least the Rock's like an athlete.

[Dion Dawkins]

He's. I don't know, Denzel Washington.

[Katie Nolan]

Sure. These are. All these are. You're doing a very good job on our podcast called Name the Actor. You're doing it. You're naming them all. New stadium and new coach. Yeah. You got a lot of new happening next. You excited?

[Dion Dawkins]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. No roof on the stadium. You guys just like to be cold, huh?

[Dion Dawkins]

No car ain't got no roof. Yeah. No. Not in our city. No.

[Katie Nolan]

Crazy to me. I feel like if I were you, I'd go, could we put a roof on this thing?

[Dion Dawkins]

But the. But the field is heated. The turf is. The turf is heated. It's like. It's, like, temperatureized. So, like, it won't be frozen, like.

[Katie Nolan]

So it doesn't hurt as much to fall onto. Because that's the part that I'm like.

[Dion Dawkins]

Like, that's the worst thing about having an open roof.

[Katie Nolan]

Right?

[Dion Dawkins]

Like, it'll be cold and regardless. But, like, we have heaters on, like, on the sides. And like our stadium, it's like, now it's almost like covering us, but not fully covered. Like, all the seats are covered so the people will be warm, and then the field is warm.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Dion Dawkins]

So it's like.

[Katie Nolan]

So it's almost like being in a hot tub outside in the cold. It's like you don't really notice how cold.

[Dion Dawkins]

I think that that's the best. Yes. That is the best example for it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Hell yeah. I agree. Being an offensive lineman.

[CM Punk]

What's that?

[Katie Nolan]

What's that? Like, is it good that people don't usually single you out by name when talking about, like, fantasy and stuff? Like, I feel like everybody always gets yelled at online receivers and running backs, but when. What they did in fantasy or gambling or whatever that week. But as an online man, I feel like you might not have to deal with that.

[Dion Dawkins]

I just noticed. Are you a. Are you a Patriots fan?

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

You're a Patriots fan, huh? I love that.

[Katie Nolan]

Is that okay?

[Dion Dawkins]

You're, like, wearing colors high.

[Katie Nolan]

I just noticed that. Is that okay?

[Dion Dawkins]

That's perfectly fine.

[Katie Nolan]

No one has noticed all day. And so I thought I was getting. I know. And I thought I was getting away with it.

[Dion Dawkins]

Bills, Jets, Dolphins, Patriots. I know that, you know, Campbell's Chunky.

[Katie Nolan]

Campbell's Chunky. I'm going to eat it if you don't.

[Dion Dawkins]

That's the trio. No, but I think. I think truly I'm the opposite of what you just just said, right? I would rather offensive linemen and those guys be a part of fantasy. Right? Like, as much as it's bad, it's also good, right? Like, I'm. I'm one player that have always been fighting for everyone else who's not afraid to speak up, like, for their self.

[Katie Nolan]

Right?

[Dion Dawkins]

Like, Like, I spoke up and we got the war done for us to have protector of the year.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, yeah, you did do that.

[Dion Dawkins]

It'll be the first year that there will be a Protector of the year award. Cool, right? For a lineman, like, imagine there's been how many years of football? 50, 60. However, like, like, many years. And the best lineman has never been, you know, respected on stage and showed in front of the the world that he was the best. So even though that fantasy could suck if you're doing bad, but it also could be good and beneficial if you're doing good.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

And I'm kind of the other way. I wish that we were on fantasy, because I want to know, do guys.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm sure you are. I'm sure there's a type of league where you can draft offense. It's not the one that I play, because that's too deep for me, you know? Yeah. I really do think you guys don't get the respect you deserve. You have such an important position, and it's. People only ever go, like, it's bad or it's. But nobody ever talks about you. Protect the quarterback, Joshua, and I mean, what a quarterback you got. He's a man. He's nice.

[Dion Dawkins]

What a guy. Haley, he gave us a whole cow. Half a cow.

[Katie Nolan]

He's not a whole cow.

[Dion Dawkins]

Half a cow. Quarter cow.

[Katie Nolan]

Quarter. Quarter of a cow.

[Dion Dawkins]

That was just a quarter of a cow. Yeah, I guess it was.

[Katie Nolan]

It was like a box. One box.

[Dion Dawkins]

It was a. A humongous box.

[Katie Nolan]

That's crazy.

[Dion Dawkins]

The box was, like, the size of this table.

[Katie Nolan]

That's crazy. If you need help eating it, I. I got. You can send some to my. To my place. All right. Dion, thank you so much for being here on behalf of Campbell's Chunky.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yes, ma'.

[Brady]

Am.

[Katie Nolan]

You want to take another bite?

[Dion Dawkins]

I would have to spit my gum out.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And we can't do that. All right. Pretend to take another bite. Yum. We have CM Punk, WWE World Heavyweight Champion. You brought the belt so that nobody would be mistaken. Nobody would wonder who you are. It's very clear.

[CM Punk]

So that TSA can take pictures of it.

[Katie Nolan]

Did you have to take it through TSA every time? What do you do in that situation? The.

[CM Punk]

The belt gets taken out, and they're like, oh, we have to swab it. I'm sure you do.

[Katie Nolan]

Right?

[CM Punk]

And then they show everybody.

[Katie Nolan]

Look at shoulder and. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[CM Punk]

It's a thing.

[Katie Nolan]

That's neat. I mean, it's. It is heavy.

[CM Punk]

It is.

[Katie Nolan]

And you just wear it. Aren't you, like, sweating under that?

[CM Punk]

No, no, no, no. I'm. I'm trying to bring V necks back, too, by the way.

[Kristen]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

All right. That's the. That's what you're here on behalf of. You're promoting V neck sweaters.

[CM Punk]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

I like that. You are the. Officially. You officially announced you're the main event at WrestleMania in Las Vegas. That was what, this week? They announced that?

[CM Punk]

I think it was. What day is today?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know. I think it's Wednesday.

[CM Punk]

All right.

[Katie Nolan]

So it's Monday night that they said.

[CM Punk]

I was gonna say yesterday because I thought today was Tuesday. Yeah, Monday.

[Katie Nolan]

I know.

[CM Punk]

Monday radio Monday in Philadelphia.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. That's exciting.

[CM Punk]

It is exciting.

[Katie Nolan]

Very much looking forward to it. CM Punk vs Roman Reigns. Can I just say, you do have the best music out of anybody.

[CM Punk]

Yeah, no, no. I'm not going to dispute 100%. I agree with you.

[Katie Nolan]

The best. People go nuts for it.

[CM Punk]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Chicago native.

[CM Punk]

Yes, ma'.

[Katie Nolan]

Am. How did you feel about the Bears this season?

[CM Punk]

The Bears is a conflict with me. I'm. I'm. And it's a preference thing. I'm more of a hockey baseball guy. I love. I love the Hawks. I love the Cubs.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

The Bears, though. Growing up in Chicago, 85 bears, obviously an instit. And then I see, you know, bandwagon geeks like Seth Rollins who make the Bears like their identity. And I don't understand because he's from Idaho and I think there's no team there. And I don't know geographically if maybe, like, Pittsburgh is close. I. I really don't. I don't. I don't know who's closer. Yeah, maybe Chicago is the closest destination.

[Katie Nolan]

But it could also be. Yeah. A couple others.

[CM Punk]

Maybe he likes the colors. I'm not trying to gatekeep. I'm not that guy. And then ultimately, how I feel about the Bears is I wish McCaskeys would sell the team because I want ownership that wants to field a winning team. I want the Bears to be here, you know, getting ready to play in a Super bowl again. That 85 Bears team should have been a dynasty, and it wasn't. And I feel it was on ownership and management, you know. So Caleb Williams doing great.

[Katie Nolan]

Great. What a season.

[CM Punk]

Except exceeded expectations past his rookie season. Ben Johnson, great addition.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

I think we need to beef up defense a little bit.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[CM Punk]

And then hopefully, hopefully next year, you know, I'm back and me and you are talking about it and talking about.

[Katie Nolan]

The Bears going to the super bowl instead of my New England Patriots.

[CM Punk]

Are you rooting for the Patriots? Really? Where. Where were you born?

[Katie Nolan]

Framingham, Massachusetts.

[CM Punk]

Okay, so that makes sense.

[Katie Nolan]

Familiar with that.

[CM Punk]

Yeah. So you're not from, like, Idaho being like. I like them because of Bill Belichick.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, exactly. No. Yeah. I'm not a. I'm not a dumb. I'm not dumb like Seth Rollins.

[CM Punk]

Okay, very good.

[Katie Nolan]

We're saying I catch on quick. Hockey guy.

[CM Punk]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So you would rank. Rank the sports in your order of preference? Hockey.

[CM Punk]

Yeah. I'd say hockey is number one of the bullet. To me, hockey is like such a microcosm of life.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

You know, like, you can't do it alone.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

You need a support system.

[Katie Nolan]

Yep. Everyone has blades on their feet.

[CM Punk]

Well, no, but. But if you see somebody picking on your little brother, you run over there and you punch him in the face. And then there's consequences for that, too. You sit in the box for a couple minutes, you feel shame, but then you're back on the ice and you, you know, you paid your debts to society and you're back on the ice trying to win.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a perfect sport.

[CM Punk]

Yeah. It really is. Love, love baseball. Grew up a Cubs fan, and I would say football would be third. Maybe.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

Unless we're like, are we counting roller derby?

[Katie Nolan]

If you want to. What? Roller derby would be third.

[CM Punk]

I think professional wrestling has to be in there, too, so maybe that's a number one. I don't know. You know, I know what the criteria is.

[Katie Nolan]

Right, of course. But it just is important. Hockey and baseball matter a lot to you. And you're a Blackhawks fan. As a Bruins fan, my family is hockey's first. I know.

[CM Punk]

Hey, you remember 2013? 2013.

[Katie Nolan]

I do.

[CM Punk]

So good. So good. Right?

[Katie Nolan]

The worst one of my sports memories.

[CM Punk]

Of my life is one of my favorite.

[Katie Nolan]

17 seconds. Yeah. Two goal. I was miserable.

[CM Punk]

It was beautiful.

[Katie Nolan]

Cursing there was beautiful. I didn't know it was you I was cursing, but I was like everybody in Chicago.

[CM Punk]

You and John Cena.

[Katie Nolan]

I hate you so much. You're also going to be on the COVID of 2K26.

[CM Punk]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

I just saw that. That's exciting. Have you been on the COVID of a video game before?

[CM Punk]

I have. I think it was2011, maybe 13.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

I don't know. It's so, so hard to remember things.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, of course.

[CM Punk]

Yeah. So this is the second time I'm on the COVID and it means a lot. You know, I. For a football player, it's like being on the COVID of Madden.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

You know, which.

[Katie Nolan]

That carries a curse, you know?

[CM Punk]

Yeah. They say this one does not. This is. This is all good. This is a good thing.

[Katie Nolan]

I just want to make sure. Okay. Do you play video games?

[CM Punk]

I do, but not wrestling games.

[Katie Nolan]

That makes sense.

[CM Punk]

People don't like my. My honesty. I. I know. I don't play wrestling games. I will play, like, Resident Evil with my wife and it's a blast.

[Katie Nolan]

Hell, yeah.

[CM Punk]

You know what I mean? Except when she gets scared and screams.

[Katie Nolan]

In my ear, Resident Evil. Scary.

[CM Punk]

No bueno.

[Katie Nolan]

It's too scary to play. I will not be touching that game. I play Arc Raiders. That's my big game. My fiance and I together play Arc Raiders.

[CM Punk]

That's all right.

[Katie Nolan]

Our game right now. If you guys are ever looking for another. But not playing wrestling games makes perfect sense to me. I work in sports, and I don't like sports video games because I'm like, it's. I'm doing that. I get it. On the other part. I don't need it here. Our podcast is called Casuals. We try to get people into sports. People that, like, have a little bit of, like, for sports or a little bit of love. We help grow it.

[CM Punk]

Sure.

[Katie Nolan]

For wwe, for professional wrestling. Is there a match you can think of you would recommend to a casual fan to help get them into the sport? Like a gateway match. Something that stands out to you as summing up all of the things you love about wrestling?

[CM Punk]

I mean, it's hard to pick, because I think you're talking about what my likes and dislikes are, and I don't necessarily want to put that on somebody because they might. It might be the wrong thing.

[Katie Nolan]

Sure.

[CM Punk]

It might be crazy, bloody, and everyone will be like, oh, what are you. What are you doing? But speaking from personal experience, my wife does not like sports at all.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

So when Hard Knocks did the Bears, I was like, I'm gonna watch this. And she sat down and watched it with me, you know, and she watched one whole episode, and then it turned into, hey, are you. Can I watch that with you? Oh, great. And we have, obviously, a show called Unreal on Netflix.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[CM Punk]

That is pretty much mirroring, like, a Hard Knocks type situation. I would tell. I would encourage Casuals to maybe watch that.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[CM Punk]

Now, I love and I hate the show because I do think we pull the curtain back a little bit too much. But what it does that's good, in my opinion, is show individual athletes outside of the spotlight. And I think it does the exact same thing that Hard Knocks does where it captivates somebody who doesn't like sports, like my wife, because it shows these players as individuals and humans. And you see them playing with their kids, and you see them getting ready for a practice and what their attitude is throughout the day. And I think that's the most beautiful thing about it. I would tell somebody to watch that.

[Katie Nolan]

All right. It's good advice. Where is that? Where do they work?

[CM Punk]

That's on Netflix.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. All right, cool.

[CM Punk]

So season two, I think, just dropped. I think a big focus is Seth and Becky. So that'll probably turn a lot of people off, but, you know, power through that. There's. There's. There's good people on the show, too.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. You can find people that you like.

[CM Punk]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. All right, cool. Well, CM Punk, good luck. Do you say good luck?

[CM Punk]

See, my reply to you saying good luck to me is saying luck is for losers.

[Katie Nolan]

Damn.

[CM Punk]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

All right.

[CM Punk]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So good.

[CM Punk]

So good luck to Roman Reigns.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes. Good luck to Roman Reigns.

[CM Punk]

He's gonna need all the help he can get.

[Katie Nolan]

He sure is. Damn. I'm scared of you. You're scary.

[CM Punk]

I'm not scary.

[Katie Nolan]

You're scary. All right. Joining me now, it's the host of the Mina Kimes show featuring Lenny Drops twice a Week on YouTube and all podcast platforms. It's Lenny. No, I'm just kidding. It's Mina Kimes.

[Isabella]

Hello.

[Katie Nolan]

Hi, Mina.

[Isabella]

So we meet here.

[Katie Nolan]

I know.

[Isabella]

Let's come to this.

[Katie Nolan]

Listen, I don't want this for us. I really don't. I really want us. I wanted this to be a fun, nice conversation, but now you're sitting here and I'm mad at you. How.

[Isabella]

But okay. So I was talking to Bill Timmons about this, our fellow Patriots fan friend, and he's really like, whatever happens, happens.

[Katie Nolan]

We have no expectations. It's the world against us.

[Isabella]

We're the underdogs.

[Katie Nolan]

Do you have.

[Isabella]

Because that can actually make you chill going into a game.

[Katie Nolan]

I did. I did have it. It was a. We didn't. We weren't supposed to be here, so what do I care what happens? And I think if the worst thing in the world happened and we lost, I would go like, hey, that's okay. I'm not like, it's not a season to be embarrassed of. They way over performed what I thought they were gonna do. But now that I'm here, I think something about, like, I haven't been at Radio Row in, like, five years, like, being back at the super bowl, and they're also back at the super bowl, and Bill Belichick gets snubbed from the hall of Fame, and then Robert Kraft isn't in less of a snub to me.

[Isabella]

But that's a personal.

[Katie Nolan]

I know, but it's like, I'm like, I wore my Patriots jacket today.

[Isabella]

I'm like, I want your Patriots to.

[Katie Nolan]

Win the effing Super Bowl.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know.

[Isabella]

It hits you.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, it is.

[Isabella]

Like, sometimes I'll be watching a sports event and I don't know how much I care or what I want to happen until it begins.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I love those. Those are my favorites. That's what I was hoping the super bowl would be, but then the Patriots made it, and I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, I guess I know who I'm rooting for.

[Isabella]

NBA games are like that with me because I don't have a team. So I'm just watching it. I'm like, I want the Pacers to win. I didn't know until it started.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. Let the game decide. Let them show you. All right. What's your actual plan for the Super Bowl? Where will you be day of for the game? So we are going to be live.

[Isabella]

We meaning my show, NFL Live after the super bowl in la. So we are watching the super bowl.

[Katie Nolan]

At SOFI Stadium, which is so interesting.

[Isabella]

So funny.

[Katie Nolan]

It sounds. It's like you got the wrong, like, the dates wrong, and you thought it was next year's super bowl, and you're like, yeah, we're just.

[Isabella]

The reason we're doing it is because we have next year's Super Bowl. It's on espn, so it's like a handoff.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice.

[Isabella]

But it also, unfortunately, means that my colleagues have to watch me watch the Super Bowl. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, I didn't even think about it. Not good.

[Isabella]

Not good.

[Katie Nolan]

Are you gonna, like. I would be like, can I be in a separate room? Can I get my own TV for when I'm, like, feeling feelings I don't want to have in public?

[Isabella]

I think I'll be okay. Unless there's, like, a Malcolm Butler style ending. And then I'm like, this is. You cannot see me this way.

[Katie Nolan]

So I wanted to ask you, where were you when that happened? When the Malcolm Butler interception at the end of the game, where were you for that?

[Isabella]

Mercifully, not at the game.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Because that would have been hell on earth, especially, like, trying to get out and, you know, traveling. I was watching it with my friends. We were at a sports bar. We had been there all day. My then, now husband was there. And when it happened and I watched and I was like, there's no flag. I stood up. It was freezing cold in New York. I was wearing a winter coat. I zipped up my winter coat, and without a word to anyone, I just left. I didn't even tell my husband. I walked for, like a mile in the snow, just in silence. And didn't answer my phone.

[Katie Nolan]

I wouldn't either. That was. I was also at a bar in New York. I was at the time dating someone who, thank God I stopped dating eventually. And he was managing A bar. And so I was watching the Super Bowl. He was a big Pats fan.

[Isabella]

Isn't the Seahawks.

[Katie Nolan]

No, the Pats fan. That was after we. I'm at this bar sitting by myself at a table because he was like, oh, no, I'm managing, so I won't have to do anything. And he ended up working the whole time. So just sitting, watching super bowl by myself at a table. And when the people were probably like, what is this lady's deal? And when the interception happened, I jumped up so much that I pushed the little bar table I was sitting at forward by accident, and I pushed this seat I was sitting in backwards. And so a table and chair both. And that caused a scene. But I was very excited because then the Patriots won that super.

[Isabella]

That is what happens.

[Katie Nolan]

Super Super Bowl. Brady wants us. Our producer wants us to do a bet, a podcast to podcast bet. He has no sort of suggestions on.

[Isabella]

What we should gamble, what the stakes should be.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. But we. I do feel people wouldn't hate it if we came up with a friendly wager.

[Isabella]

Okay, how about if the Patriots win, I'll send you a video saying something nice about the Patriots after the game.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

And the reverse for you.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. All right. That's easy enough.

[Isabella]

Just a nice little, like, yeah. Hey, that was a great game from Sam Darnold.

[Katie Nolan]

Hey, I really liked the way Sam Darnold didn't see a single ghost.

[Isabella]

He's hard to root against, though, right?

[Katie Nolan]

I know. I'm nice. And I also just love Drake, one.

[Isabella]

Of the all time nice guy Super Bowls.

[Katie Nolan]

It's like nice guy v Nice guy, which is tough if you're a nice guy and supposedly they're supposed to finish last one of them will win. Technically, a nice guy will win big. Win for the nice guys. Yeah. Sam Darnold's story is great. Everybody counted him out, calling him a bust, and then he goes to Minnesota, has a great time, bad playoff game that everybody said, that's gonna ruin his drafts or his trade capital or whatever words you guys use when you talk about sports. And then you guys get him. You weren't thrilled at first, right?

[Isabella]

Well, I wasn't thrilled with the Geno trade. Yes. That's what's been.

[Katie Nolan]

What's going now.

[Isabella]

Yeah, not. I. I've actually always really liked Sam and he's nice. Well, I liked him as a player a lot, actually. Stugatz I saw reminded me that when the jets drafted him, I was like, stugats, you're gonna love this guy. Love his college tape. I Loved him in college. I thought he was an unbelievable prospect. And then that take looked bad. And then it. This is the thing about takes.

[Katie Nolan]

The thing about takes. You just gotta wait any take when. That's why when they do like freezing cold takes like that was a week ago.

[Isabella]

What do we visit this in a year?

[Katie Nolan]

We have to.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So I think you're ultimately the. Your Sam Darnold take bends towards the truth is what they say in the long run. What's going to happen in this game? I'm sick of everybody telling me it's going to be a blowout.

[Isabella]

I don't think it's going to be a blowout. I think my final score prediction was 2724, which would suggest a good game. My general thesis for. Oh, it's Justin Jefferson, New England is.

[Katie Nolan]

That sums up radio row in a sentence. I was.

[Isabella]

Oh, right, yeah. Pretty good. Yeah. My general thesis is that the New England offense is going to look better than it has and the defense is going to look worse than it has.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

So like, I think people are overreacting in both ways. Obviously the Seahawks defense is extremely good, but Drake May's face to gauntlet of defenses and obviously the weather. And then on the flip side, the New England defense has faced some pretty bad offenses thus far.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Isabella]

So yeah.

[Octavia Spencer]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

I think they'll be challenged.

[Katie Nolan]

We'll see. We'll see. I'm so scared.

[Isabella]

We shall see.

[Katie Nolan]

What you did since I saw you last. You did the great. We both have great American baking show. How was your experience?

[Isabella]

It was so fun.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

So I'll start by that. You like.

[Katie Nolan]

So fun. So fun.

[Kristen]

Right.

[Katie Nolan]

Such like a weird. You're just in a tent in the middle of nowhere and you're just like. You've got jet lag. If you're me, you're exhausted.

[Isabella]

Yes. It's in the. It's in like the English countryside.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it's beautiful.

[Isabella]

You get to meet Paul Hollywood handsome. So I didn't know we had to make eclairs. And I made matcha eclairs.

[Katie Nolan]

Yum.

[Isabella]

And spoiler. I got a handshake.

[Katie Nolan]

You did.

[Isabella]

But I didn't know that Paul hates matcha. So I posted and all these Bake off fans were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Not only did you get double handshake, they were like, this is unbelievable.

[Katie Nolan]

He picked a flavor he hates.

[Isabella]

That's what I didn't know. I didn't do the research. Von Miller won also you doing the.

[Katie Nolan]

Research and looking up the flavors that he liked would be crazy.

[Isabella]

I didn't.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, Von Miller won. What did he. What was the final challenge? A cake.

[Isabella]

We had to do. I'm going to show you. Yeah, what? The final challenge. It was a cookie card cake. Okay, I'm gonna show you because I just texted someone.

[Katie Nolan]

Level of difficulty. High.

[Isabella]

Well, I just want you, Katie, as an unbiased observer.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, this is Mina saying she thinks she should have won. That Von Miller's sucked in. Hers was good.

[Isabella]

Which one of these do you think I made?

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, man, I can already tell the video. Oh, wait, go back to the beginning. Okay.

[Isabella]

Okay. So it's Julian Edelman.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, my God. The last two are horrendous.

[Isabella]

Vaughn Mellor, Antonio Gates and myself.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

Which one do you think I made?

[Katie Nolan]

I think you made the Griffey.

[Isabella]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, of course. It's beautiful.

[Isabella]

Did not win.

[Katie Nolan]

It's really good. It looks really great. Who made the Joe Cool?

[Isabella]

That was Julian Edelman, of course. Loves Montana.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Isabella]

He is not bad.

[Katie Nolan]

That's not a bad thing. You're saying one.

[Isabella]

One of the final two won? Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

What did they taste good?

[Isabella]

So that was. They said it was delicious. And he had also been very good in the technical. And I was really bad at the Technical Challenge.

[Katie Nolan]

That's the one where you don't. Something gets held.

[Isabella]

I made it too small and it was like. What was the. Would you have like a puff pastry shaped like a football? It was not. I was bad. I was bad. I was fully.

[Katie Nolan]

No, I won the technical Challenge.

[Isabella]

That's not surprising to me.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Thrive in chaos.

[Katie Nolan]

I do. I made a. A whoopie pie. A football shaped whoopie pie.

[Isabella]

That sounds good.

[Katie Nolan]

It was.

[Isabella]

Can I say Julian Edelman. I had never spent time around him.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Obviously a foe of mine from, of course, the Patriot Super Bowls. Upsetting how nice and cool he is. You don't want him to be as cool as he is. And then you spend. I spent like two days with him. He is so freaking nice.

[Katie Nolan]

I know.

[Isabella]

God really gives with both hands to some people. Also, Casey Wilson made an insane joke to him that I cannot. A super risky risque joke.

[Katie Nolan]

What'd she say?

[Isabella]

Cuz there was. She was really around him a lot.

[Katie Nolan]

That's very funny.

[Isabella]

She said. I don't know if I could say this on serious.

[Kristen]

It was on the Great British Spanka.

[Isabella]

Can I show. Dare I say it?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Isabella]

It was on the show.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a podcast. We'll cut it out.

[Isabella]

She said, I'd love to be your slot receiver.

[Katie Nolan]

What? I mean, they Left it in. Left it.

[Octavia Spencer]

I know, right?

[Isabella]

I know the tight end jokes were there with. When she said that, I was like, what? Like, my eyes bugged out of my head.

[Katie Nolan]

When on mine, DK was there and I.

[Isabella]

Another man with presence.

[Katie Nolan]

I said to him I was okay. So what it was, I think Casey was asking me, like, I want to ask some football questions. How do I ask them? And I said, you know, a thing people use, a lot of reporters use is talk a bit about.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

It's like, helps you. And I was like, just throw in random words. Talk a bit about cookies, talk a bit about cake. You know, you can ask him questions like that. And then I said, talk a bit about threesomes as a joke. And I think she said it. She and he, like, whipped around.

[Kristen]

Oh, my God.

[Katie Nolan]

And I was like, I didn't mean that one. I was joking about that.

[Isabella]

That's hilarious.

[Katie Nolan]

She's very funny. She's very funny. That show was very fun. Was Pru there for you?

[Isabella]

Pru was there, so I. I got the end of the era.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I mean, ain't she something?

[Isabella]

You know, I think she wanted me to win.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

I throw that out there.

[Isabella]

I think her things to me that made me think she was in my corner.

[Katie Nolan]

I think she and DK had a little bit of. DK was into her. I'll just say that he seemed very into Pru.

[Isabella]

I believe it.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm looking at what I'm supposed to be asking you. Oh, you know what I started watching was the Traitors. Oh, I just started this new season of Traitors, and I've. I'm getting Dan into it so good. He's like, this show has no rules.

[Isabella]

It takes a second.

[Katie Nolan]

The rules don't make any sense.

[Isabella]

The rules don't make sense in the beginning, and then once they get rid of, like, the canop, it becomes more strategically interesting.

[Katie Nolan]

Who are you rooting for on the show this season?

[Isabella]

Well, I was rooting for my friend Ron Funches, who got eliminated. He's so funny.

[Katie Nolan]

I know. He's so funny. And they really didn't. I could tell from the. From the start, like, they don't get him. They don't understand.

[Isabella]

They were so befuddled by he. Like, he never watched the Housewives.

[Katie Nolan]

I know.

[Isabella]

You should have him on your show sometime. He's a huge sports fan.

[Katie Nolan]

He's the best. We had him on garbage time a million years ago, but, yeah, he's Seahawks fan.

[Isabella]

I didn't know that. He's Seahawks and Bears, so he's Pacific Northwest in Chicago.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, that makes sense. All right, Mina, it's. I'm getting a sign held up that says rap and so you said 24, 21, 26, 24.

[Diana Rossini]

What did you say?

[Isabella]

2724 was my official score prediction.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's 27 for the New England Patriots and 24. Four for your Seattle Seahawks.

[Isabella]

That's not my prediction.

[Katie Nolan]

That's what she said it.

[Isabella]

Here, lock it, load it, put it.

[Katie Nolan]

All over the Internet.

[Isabella]

I look forward to your congratulatory video.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, man, I really hope. I really hope the Patriots. We need this, Mina. We don't have anything else going for. No, I hope you have fun. I hope it's a good game. That's all I hope. And that the commercials aren't all entirely AI. I think every commercial is going to be either about AI or made by AI don't love. And that's gonna make me nauseous.

[Isabella]

Not a fan. You gonna parties any parties tonight? I think so. Hopefully I'll see you.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm not. I didn't. I didn't bring any clothes to go to a party, but I. I'll show up in this. Good idea. Absolutely. Mina Kimes, the greatest person on earth and my favorite person in the world who I hate for the next few days. Thank you for being here. Kyle Juszczyk, Kristian Uszczyk here. On behalf of Flips the chocolate pencils. Can I just say, a good campaign, the best campaign ever. You guys have a good campaign? A lot of campaigns. Not that I'm judging and I'm promoting everyone's equally, but it's a good idea. Yeah.

[Kristen]

Well, that's why we got behind it, because when we read the script and you know, Flips is really trying to change the name of the coin toss right to the coin flip, as they should. And then they told us that the coin has to flip in order for it to count. We were like, you're on to something here. We like it.

[Katie Nolan]

We'll get behind it. It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. Are they campaigning to, like, actually change it? Oh, yeah.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

We have a petition and everything.

[Kristen]

So sign the petition.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Incredible. Where do you go to sign it? People are gonna want to sign this.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Instagram or their website.

[Kristen]

Their website. They have it in their bio.

[Katie Nolan]

Link in bio. That's what we say nowadays. Kristin, you've been having an incredible year with your fashion line. Thank you. Everything is amazing. Reinventing the way that merch is. As a female sports fan who's been loving sports my whole Life. I'm from Boston, so I know. Good luck to me in the Super Bowl. Good luck, team.

[Octavia Spencer]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

So grateful for, like, a fresh eye and a fresh take on what used to just be, like a pink version.

[Kristen]

Of the regular stuff.

[Katie Nolan]

That's what they say. And like, not that there's anything wrong with pink. Pink is fine. But it's just like the way you've reimagined and just like, changed the game has been huge. How has it been for you, this ride and this journey and all this.

[Diana Rossini]

Thank you.

[Kristen]

I really appreciate that. That's the reason I want to do what I keep doing, for that exact reason.

[Katie Nolan]

So thank you.

[Kristen]

No, it's been amazing. I mean, it all stemmed from exactly what you were saying. Like, I'm a fan, first and foremost, go to all his games, and I just got so sick of wearing the same stuff over and over again. And what I want to wear in my everyday life did not exist in sports apparel. Like, it was really just T shirts were the only options. And like, maybe lucky you get a V neck.

[Katie Nolan]

Woohoo.

[Kristen]

Like, there was just nothing out there.

[Katie Nolan]

Live a little.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kristen]

Maybe you cropped up and so, yeah, I just, like, have so much fun, really, like pushing the boundaries, playing around with different types of silhouettes, like, what fans want, what they don't. We're still in like the startup phase, so I'm learning, like, what works, what doesn't work. But I have so much fun being able to really test it out. And also it's fun during the year too, because it's almost like during the year I'll make stuff for myself every year and I can see what is getting engagement and what's not. And I'm like, oh, that we should bring in for next year then, because, yeah, it's like we're being able to test the market throughout the football season for the next football season.

[Katie Nolan]

That's amazing. It's very smart. You've also been very supportive and vocally supportive of her, which I also love. I feel like it's something that I've. I didn't realize I wanted until I got it from you two as like a couple. Like, these are. You're like such a good couple for the NFL and for fans, so I really appreciate it.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

It's quite easy for me, honestly.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I mean, she rules. She rules. And she also noticed that there's a stain on your shirt. You know what I mean? It's just a thing. I don't want to ask about the. About the three heart mics. I don't want to get you in any sort of trouble. I just know a lot of people are so interested in this electrical substation.

[Kristen]

Yeah, sure.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. So, Kristen. Oh, gosh me. Did you see that theory online?

[Kristen]

I've been saying it for nine years.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

Just to say. And listen, who knows?

[Katie Nolan]

Who knows? We're not doctors.

[Kristen]

We're not doctors. We're not scientists.

[Katie Nolan]

But it's good. But something.

[Kristen]

It's just interesting to look into it. Like, it's just one of those things. I mean, I think at the end of the day, it's probably not healthy for anybody to be next to a power plant for as long.

[Katie Nolan]

Like anything. Anything creates a lot of.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I don't use the microwave while it's on, you know, so, like, you don't.

[Kristen]

Even use Bluetooth headphones. Like, he.

[Katie Nolan]

My fiance's the same way because he said he doesn't. Like, where is it coming from? We don't know.

[CM Punk]

We have no idea.

[Katie Nolan]

We don't know anything.

[Kristen]

So, I mean, listen, I think it's an interesting experiment. Maybe call up some of your Harvard people, have them do a case study on it.

[Mina Kimes]

Yeah.

[CM Punk]

Shout out to Boston people.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

But no, I mean, I agree. And listen, like, I. The first thing someone's going to say is, like, oh, you know, Juice is complaining they didn't win the super bowl because they're by the power station. No, that's not why we didn't win the Super Bowl.

[Katie Nolan]

That. Post it online.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

But I think, you know, as professional athletes, like, we are so concerned with our health and being our absolute best and, like, optimal performance. And I think at the end of the day, like, you know, it's not about how many games were missed, how many guys were injured. Like, if something is not healthy for us, I don't want to be a part of it, you know? So I would love for someone who is trained in that field of EMFs and, you know, power stations. I don't know, whatever.

[Katie Nolan]

Whatever field that is.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Is it healthy to be in close contact with it? And where we're at is that close contact? So, you know, I don't know. I've missed seven games my entire life.

[Katie Nolan]

Crazy.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

So I can't sit here and say, like, oh, I'm so injured because I've played for the Niners for nine years. Like, that's just not the case. Yeah, I'm just. I am just curious.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, we're just asking questions.

[Mina Kimes]

Exactly.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

We just want to know that's not why we didn't win.

[Katie Nolan]

No, but I mean, it must have been so frustrating, dealing with injuries as a team. It just feels like the Niners are always getting hurt. Yeah. How do you guys, like, keep your spirits up when you're, you know, players like Kittle are, like, hurt and leaving? Like, that's such a leader on the team.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I mean, it is so hard, you know, when you see, especially guys, you know, like George and Fred and Bosa, like, you know, that's the heart and soul of our team. They're the personality of our team. So when they go down, like, that's. It's more than just what they can do as athletes. Like, physically, like, it's also there leadership and all that that you miss out on. But you. You, unfortunately, you. You kind of become trained at things and become hardened and numb to it because there's just no time to dwell on it. Like, you know, like, George Kittle's my best friend, tears his Achilles in a playoff game, and I'm the first one standing over him, and he. And right away looks in the. It looks at me, in my eyes, he's like, I tore my Achilles.

[Katie Nolan]

God.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Like. And you have a minute to react, to process that, and then get back out there. And then you got to get right back out there. So it's. Unfortunately, it's something that we're trained to deal with, but, you know, as the Niners specifically, I just think that we've created such a great culture, and we have so many leaders beyond just our captains, like, that when people do go down, people know what to expect and they know the standard that we've set. And I think that's really helped in us being able to continue to have success even when guys do go down.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, making it as far as you guys did this season, it was like, a huge testament to your coach, but also the team and the culture that you guys have.

[Kristen]

And I think it only sets you guys up for next year because now you have people who are third string playing in playoff games. So now it's like, next man up mentality. You feel so confident and your secondary.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Absolutely. And, like, guy, first look at me.

[Diana Rossini]

Using words like secondary.

[Katie Nolan]

I was really loving everything you just did there. I was like, why don't you take this?

[Kyle Juszczyk]

It wasn't used correctly, but it was.

[Katie Nolan]

Close enough for casuals. It was close enough.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Secondary is free, safeties and corners. But anyway, get it next time.

[Katie Nolan]

You'll get it next time.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I have a state on my shirt. So what are we doing anyway here? Anyways?

[Katie Nolan]

I'm. I'm marrying a Niners fan. So I have. I've watched a lot of. Yes. It's an honor to be in the family. An honor to be in the family. He's a big fan of yours. We yelled your name quite a bit this season. Yeah, just a bummer.

[Kristen]

Well, they're not booing him just in case, because people who are new to the Niner fan, everyone goes for boos, and everyone's like, oh, my God.

[Katie Nolan]

What did that player do? Like, oh, my God. That player's my God. And they absolutely love him. I'm just making sure I get to everything with you guys because I have so many things I want to ask you about. Oh, the Pro Bowl. Yeah. How was the Pro Bowl? I think a lot of people make fun of it, but I bet for you guys, it's still really fun.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

That's the thing. It really is fun for us. And I. I don't know how it is as a product, like, viewing it on the outside just because I'm not doing it. I'm participating in it. But I can tell you I'm having a great time.

[Katie Nolan]

Did anything happen last night? Like, a great memory? I know you won. I know that's.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Yeah, that's always fun. You get a little extra, a little bigger paycheck when you win. But really, the whole week for us as players is, like, being able to form relationships with guys off the field that we're competing against the whole season. And it. It really, like, all these guys that I swear, when we play, like, after we play him or leading up to.

[CM Punk]

It, I'm like, man, I hate that guy.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Like, he's the worst. Like, he has to be, like, a terrible person. And then you meet him at the Pro bowl, and you're like, gosh, he's so awesome.

[Katie Nolan]

So does it make it hard to, like, play against them later because you're like, oh, he was so nice at the Pro.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

No, I'm being like. That is, like, kind of a competitive thing, is, like, once you get to know somebody, like, it is kind of harder to, like, absolutely. Like, you know, like, be an.

[Kristen]

Tom Brady said that once in an interview.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I remember why he never went to the Pro Bowls just for that reason.

[Kristen]

No, he literally said. He said everyone in the league needs to stop being friends. Like, you can't be a true competitor and, like, be a dog out there if you're friends with everyone on the defense or on the offense. Do you remember that clip?

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I do remember.

[Kristen]

I was like, hey, stop talking to everybody. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Hey, make more enemies out there.

[CM Punk]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

It is nice as a fan to hear because in our heads, it's like they hate them and they would never be friends. And usually athletes are like, that's really stupid. We all like each other. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice to kind of hear.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I still hate guys.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, good. Do you want to say any of the guys who do you. Who do you hate most? Yeah. Okay. And so you're rooting for the Patriots.

[Kristen]

We are rooting for the Patriots.

[Katie Nolan]

Hell, yeah.

[Dion Dawkins]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

Well, I have to say.

[Katie Nolan]

Sick.

[Kristen]

I'm rooting for the Patriots.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, for sure. I'm hoping it's going to. Everybody's talking about it like it's going to be a blowout. And I said to my fiance, like, the Patriots are not going to let. No. The Seahawks win a Super bowl in your house. The Patriots hopefully are going to get in the way of that. Do you guys have any predictions? Do you think it's going to be.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

No, I honestly, I think it's going to be a close game because I mean it. I, I, There are some statistics that, like, anytime there's a, like, it's worse than like a four point underdog. The. That underdog is like 12 and four.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw that. Oh, why? It's a four point.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I think they're.

[Katie Nolan]

It was. I saw three and a half, but I've also seen four and a half.

[Kristen]

I don't know what that means.

[Katie Nolan]

I really couldn't get it.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

At the end of the day, like, these are, these are two elite football teams.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

And it's, it's, it's gonna be really hard for anyone to blow another team out.

[Isabella]

Absolutely.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

At this stage in the game, you.

[Kristen]

Always hope for a close game. In the super bowl, though, it's way more entertaining.

[Katie Nolan]

Good Super Bowls. I know people are annoyed. They're in it a lot, but they're always entertaining. Yeah, they're always very entertaining.

[Kristen]

And Drake may. I mean their story. Him and his wife are so cute and adorable. So, so cute. You have to. It's hard. But we also love Sam Darnold. So, I mean, like, it's just.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

We love Sam Darnold.

[Katie Nolan]

So personal. Do you have like a wag network of. Across the. We're like, they reach out to you and you.

[Kristen]

Oh, absolutely.

[Katie Nolan]

I love that it's a family.

[Kristen]

I mean, like, no one can relate to what the guys go through more than the wives and the girlfriends. Right. And so we all are living, like, similar lives, even though going in different states and whatnot. So you just automatically connect with each other.

[Katie Nolan]

It's like a built in support system that I feel like might be very helpful. What are you guys doing for the actual game?

[Kristen]

Probably crying.

[Isabella]

No, I'm kidding.

[Katie Nolan]

Kyle just cries the whole time. I don't know. Damn.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Yeah, we.

[Kristen]

We'll be on the couch with our dogs.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Or something.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Another stain on your shirt. Something like that.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

We'll be eating some flips chocolate covered pretzels. I'll probably have. So will I chocolate on my shirt.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Octavia Spencer]

Yeah.

[Diana Rossini]

For sure.

[Katie Nolan]

That truly is the most difficult thing about eating a chocolate covered pretzel on the couch is if like a little bit of it flakes off and you don't realize it always will. And then later you're like, oh my God, I'm covered in chocolate.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

You just gotta one bite.

[Katie Nolan]

One bite. But flip it, flip it and then one bite. Kyle used check. Kristen used check. Thank you so much. Thank you. It was very cool to meet you and you're fantastic. If you want to say Go Pats, nobody would be mad.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

I am a Niners.

[Katie Nolan]

I know.

[Kristen]

Go Niners.

[Diana Rossini]

Right?

[Katie Nolan]

Go Niners.

[Kyle Juszczyk]

Bang bang.

[Katie Nolan]

Go Niners. Bang bang. Niner gang. Yeah, that's great.

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[Katie Nolan]

Okay, that's. That's Radio Row. Isabel, are you. Are you jealous? I am. Do you wish that you were here? I really think it's better experienced from home. I really.

[Isabella]

I wish I was there. I miss the Labubu. And you.

[Katie Nolan]

We miss you too. I can't wait to put this little sweet little Labubu on our set.

[Kristen]

She's such a cutie.

[Isabella]

Cute.

[Katie Nolan]

She's such a cutie. I'm obsessed with her and her gigantic bow. A big thank to our big thanks. Not one big thank.

[Mina Kimes]

Multiple large collective thank.

[Katie Nolan]

One big old thank to our guests today. Diana Rossini, Octavia Spencer, Dion Dawkins, CM Punk, Mina Kimes, Kyle Juszczyk, Christian Juszczyk. An amazing show, a fun time, a big busy day. We got a lot going on tomorrow as well. We're gonna see. And this is all, you know, planned. You never know. These things could cancel. We may be jinxing ourselves here, but we got Nikki Bella coming back through. Emmitt Smith, Warren Moon, Donovan McNabb, Seth Rollins, Brandon Aubrey, Tim Howard and Orange Cassidy. So a big day, exciting day. The second to last day of Radio Row. God, I can't. I'm he. I'm happy to be here. I also can't wait to be home. Go Pates. Oh, I have not yet told anybody how to reach us. Forgot to do that. Up top. So I'll just say here if you want to send us an email about anything. Casualswithkatienolanmail.com Our voicemail 646-801-0043 on IG and TikTok, we are at Casuals, the podcast. I'm Katie Nolan. On behalf of all of us, Isabella, Chris, our dear friend Brady, thank you for listening and we will see you back here tomorrow for another episode of Casuals. Bye.

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[Katie Nolan]

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[Isabella]

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